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Re:California can enforce net neutrality law, judge rules in... by mywittyname on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @12:31PM (#26252807)
> By now we were supposed to be living in an internet dystopia.

To be clear, the implications were always expected to be that ISP would start running extortion rackets where they would charge fees to competitors or large internet money makers. Effectively double-dipping on consumers, so not only do you pay the ISP for internet access, but Google, Netflix, et al have to pay ISPs for access to you.

This did happen. Netflix was throttled a few years ago and they reached a "deal" with Comcast and a few months later, Netflix rates were increased.

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Re:California can enforce net neutrality law, judge rules in... by fat_pikachu on Thursday February 25, 2021 @08:43AM (#26262624)
> This did happen. Netflix was throttled a few years ago and they reached a "deal" with Comcast and a few months later, Netflix rates were increased.

1) This happened prior to net neutrality regulations.

2) This was a peering dispute, not throttling.

3) Net Neutrality did not regulate peering.

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